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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is an interesting social media networks fundraiser that asks donors to stop using Twitter or Facebook for a day (November 1st) to call awareness and financial support for autism. Social network users have become reliant and even addicted to platforms like Facebook and Twitter. See you on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday!

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JUNE 12, 2009

Our Twitter policy: Be professional, kind, discreet, authentic. Tags: policy. Represent us well. Remember that you can’t control it once you hit “update.” via Gruntled Employees Blog.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Another master at social network analysis and network weaving, gave me some network weaving coaching from Twitter as well - saying that it was important to let everyone know the value of closing the triangle. Tags: network weaving. She's the guru of.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Twitter has been used during the G20 protests , election monitoring and crowd-sourcing the location of a torch when it was passing through San Francisco. The recently published The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism (Click here to download the PDF version) offers some mini-case studies organized by objective. The objectives: 1.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I do an online pre-survey if possible and browse their social media outposts, ask questions about the audience to the host, etc. But one thing I’ve always wanted to try is a Twitter Chat before the session and use it as a focus group. A list of active Twitter users who do summer learning programs and their members.

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JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. The hash tag #askacurator became a top trending topic on Twitter on the day of the event. The hash tag #askacurator became a top trending topic on Twitter on the day of the event. What was the objective?

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AUGUST 6, 2009

I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information. In the last few months , Twitter become popular with old people. If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. Twitter is where the stalkers are."

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. Tags: LBSN. Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010.

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JULY 8, 2010

It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter. Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. I know I am finding good people to follow on Twitter by the number of great exchanges that emerge on many topics. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog: We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business. Tags: fundraising2.0

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Tags: twitter. Thanks Brian and Jesse for a terrifically useful map to the Twitterverse. .

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I just happen to notice a Twitter follower, David Lipscomb, who retweeted this great find from the McKinssey. This can be done with direct replies @ on Twitter or hashtags. It's a Twitter Guide to the Climate Bill Discussion. Tags: social media. For example, take a look at what EDF has put together.

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MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. Also nice to see a week of top links or week tag cloud. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. The goal is to raised $10,000 on Twitter. Tags: twitter.

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MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. Tags: socialmediametrics socialnetworking socialcapital twitter.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cindy wrote: "A couple of months ago I was reading an article about Twitter and went to your blog. I set-up a Twitter account , forgot it, figured a waste of time, until now. I connected with @chrisvoss and learned from his videos how to use Twitter to help my organization. . Tags: twitter.

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JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

Jane Quigley , who I met at Podcamp, tagged me for the Media Snack Meme. Here's how I media snack: I use Twitter to "dip" into the stream and while I am following a lot of people, I've developed an ear for the ones that give me the most valuable information and my attention is drawn towards them. Photo by KellyK.

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JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Clearly it works.but why?

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ). Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? I also wanted to blog both Laura's excellent Twitter Digg deck and Jon's concise and smart case study of Digg.  

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JUNE 1, 2009

Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter. Some Twitter Tidbits plucked from the TWTRCON stream (and beyond). Pistachio : Twitter is: Newspapers in a Blender.

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MAY 26, 2009

Anyway, this small book about Twitter is packed with simple, practical advice for getting you up to speed quickly. I think of it as a kinda Strunk and White for Twitter with brevity, wit, great examples, and simplicity.Each color coded section covers: Getting Started. Twitter for Business. Tags: twitter.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Tags: freeagent. Photo with Mark Horvath, @hardlynormal We did three things while we were in Santa Monica - visited the Getty, road the Ferris Wheel on the Pier, and had coffee with Mark Horvath, an advocate for homeless who uses social media.

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MAY 2, 2008

I mentioned a twitter tool called Group Tweet that let you create groups on Twitter. Crowd status was created by Darren Stuart who wanted a way to view a group of people's twitter statuses. Then you create a "crowd" and then add the Twitter ids to the list. How might you use this twitter group tool?

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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JUNE 7, 2008

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. When a service goes down, users will complain. And if happens a lot, they may move on.

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Let's take a look. How do you make easy? What is the reaction?

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MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. I've been using twitter off and one since November. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance. I'm still not sure why.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Want to listen on Twitter? What's the nonprofit chatter that is happening right now on Twitter? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

(Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. None of them had heard of Twitter, let alone used it. Maybe Twitter isn???t ll twitter, ???I???m

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MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a twitter account. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Little did I realize that my ranting about powerpoint templates yesterday would end up on Mashable today in a post called Twitter Professors: 18 People To Follow for A Real Time Education by Lon S. It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. Tags: rssreaders.

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